Less than a week after federal regulators announced strict new rules for the tank car trains that hauled more than 490,000 loads of oil last year. A train derailed and burst into flames Wednesday, forcing the evacuation of a North Dakota town. “The town of Heimdal is being evacuated,” said Sarah Feinberg, acting administrator of […]
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SWANTON, Md. (AP) — CSX Corp. says it’s investigating the cause of train derailment near the western Maryland community of Swanton. Spokesman Rob Doolittle says 11 of the 88 cars on a train traveling from Cumberland to Russell, Kentucky, derailed at about 4:30 a.m. Wednesday. He says no injuries or spills of hazardous materials were
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A lack of sufficient road and rail infrastructure, and insufficient port capacity will place stress on the global economy, creating the “perfect storm” for shipping according to the Global Shippers’ Forum (GSF). At the Eurocoke Summit in Amsterdam, Chris Welsh, secretary-general of the GSF, said: “Increasing international trade will set unprecedented challenges to the transport
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The Ambassador Bridge has been reopened following a vehicle fire that stopped traffic on the busy international crossing today. Ambassador Bridge spokesman Mickey Blashfield said traffic was restored after the fire, which was caused by a pickup hauling a trailer and headed to Canada. He said what caused the vehicle fire is unknown. He said
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The U.S. is 97 percent reliant on foreign ships to transport its imports and exports. America’s standing as a commercial sea power has been in decline since the mid-twentieth century while China, Brazil and now India have declared that their commercial shipyards are “Strategic National assets”. “US-built coastal ships are the trucks of the US Marine
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Today the United States has two well-recognized surface transportation modes—rail and road— and a third, which largely is forgotten. Missing is the marine mode, known as the American Marine Highway. Sometimes the simplest solutions are the hardest to see. Less than .003% of the U.S. Department of Transportation budget is proposed to be spent on
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Government incentives have jump-started new technologies, and fostered the revitalization and retooling of entire U.S. industries. Recent examples include substantial Federal rebates for electric cars, credits for LEED certified building systems, Renewable Energy Credits (REC) for Green Energy generation, loan guarantees for solar and wind turbines farms, the development of greener engines, and, most dramatically,
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Freight Volume Moving Through the U. S.’s Transportation Infrastructure Access the pdf below for the current statistics on the volume of freight being transported via the U.S.’ Transportation Infrastructure. Estimates are World Shipping Council calculations based on source data from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration and Federal Highway Administration.
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Westbound I-94 is back open after a tanker fire this morning shut down both sides of the expressway near the Dearborn/Detroit border. Eastbound lanes will remain closed from the Southfield Freeway to I-96 through the weekend, according to a Diane Cross, a spokeswoman for the Michigan Department of Transportation. The tanker fire that ignited late
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